Spilsburt pocock



(No Model.)

0. S. POGOCK. MECHANICAL TOY AND ADYBRTISINGIMAOHINB.

No. 571,015: *Z Pate nted Nov. 10, 1896.

UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

CAROLINE SPILSBURY POCOOK, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

XMECHANICAL TOY AND ADVERTISING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 571,015, dated November 10, 1896.

Application filed March 30,1896. Serial No. 585,466. (No model.) Patented in England January 11,1695,1I6. 686.

T0 at whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CAROLINE SPILsBURY POCOOK, gentlewoman, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at 66 St. Anns Hill, Vandsworth, London, in the county of Surrey, England, have invented a new and useful Improved Mechanical Toy and Advertising- Machine, (for which I have obtained a patent in Great Britain, N0. 686, bearing date J anuary 11, 1895,) of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved mechanical toy and advertising-machine.

The object of my invention is to produce a mechanical toy consisting of a figure or manikin which shall be capable of drawing a figure or writing upon paper placed before it. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation. Fig. 2 is a side elevation. Fig. 3 is a plan of the mechanism at the bottom of the platform. Fig. 4 is a plan of the driving-spindle and ratchetwheel. Fig. 5 is a vertical section on line AB. Fig. 6 is a plan of the arm-crank. Fig. 7 is a side view of the levers attached to the springs.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throu ghout the several views.

To efiect my object I provide two disks or cams a and a, which are cut to a certain contour upon their peripheries, according to the design the manikin b is intended to produce. These cams a and a are mounted upon a fixed spindle 0, above a ratchet-wheel d, with -a set-pin e, which revolves by the force of the worm f when the driving-shaft g is operated by the handle it or clockwork, or any other suitable power. Of these cams one is in tended to give the horizontal and the other the vertical movement to the pencil-bar 2', which describesthe characters. The aforesaid pencil-bar 6' is fixed in such a way as to represent the arm j of the manikin b, but preferably the arm j is fixed to a crank 76, attached to a vertical hollow shaft Z. This said vertical hollow shaft rocks at its base on a bar m, which bar m is connected to the lever n.

Against each of the cams a and a a peg 0 on the end of the lever 12 and a bend g on lever '1' are caused to press by means of spiral a. communication with the pencil-bar 'i and springs s. The said levers, which oscillate on a spindle t, are connected to the lever n, near the bar m and also by a connecting-bar Thus the aforesaid mechanism is in direct causes it to move in accordance with the contour of the cams a and a, the combined action of the two cams causing the delineation of the characters or figures by the pencilpoint 12. The point of the pencil-bar is kept up against the paper fixed on an easel w by be pivoted in or about its center on a gimbal' or ball-and-socket joint, or, for simplicity, this joint may be omitted and the pencil-bar guided and caused to move square with the paper.

For advertising purposes I make the manikin of a large size and cause it to Write the words of the advertisement upon a paper roll, and when the advertisement is completed I cause the paper so written upon to be proj ected by suitable mechanism from the case in which the manikin is placed, or torn off, leaving a fresh piece of paper available for the next advertisement. I either work this by clockwork or by a lever and spring to be operated each time the figure is required to write, or by some other suitable well-known mechanism, and I make it workable upon the dropping of a coin into a slot or otherwise.

IVhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-- In a mechanical toy and advertising-machine, the combination of the two disks or cams a and a, with the two levers n and 19 having the peg 0 and bend g on them for pressing against the cams and the two springs .9 together with the various other levers and bars for communicating the motion given to the lovers by the cams to the pencil-bar 6, and with a means of causing the cams to revolve such as a worm and wheel, substantially as described.

'CAROLINE SPILSBURY POCOCK- itnesses BERNARD G. PooooK, HUGH STEPHEN POCOOK. 

